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The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for December will be Don Bartletti.
Members bring prints for critique on the third Wednesday of each month. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Visitors are welcome, however, submitting images for critique is available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Don
From the crowded streets of California to the continent-spanning routes of human migration, Don uses the camera to preserve story-telling moments that often pass in the blink of an eye. All of us who appreciate the medium know that there is no better evidence of a fleeting moment than the still photograph. Some can make us smile; some make us weep. Over his 52-year career on the road as a newspaper photojournalist, he occasionally found himself focusing on things that made him wonder, “How can such things be?”.
Darkroomers members may drop off their print entries in preparation for the 2025 Year-End Competition which will be held on January 10, 2026.
Entry Categories
- Animals: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Animals
- Architechture and Cityscapes: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Architecture-Cityscapes
- Birds and Insects: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Birds-Insects
- Landscapes and Waterscapes: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Landscapes-Waterscapes
- Monochrome: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Monochrome
- Other: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Other
- People: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-People
- Still Life: https://slickpic.us/Year-End-2025-Still-Life
Members may submit up to 10 images in total. Entries must be submitted online at the links above no later than 11:59 PM, December 31, 2025.
Celebrate a year of stunning photography with us at our Year-End Competition, a highly anticipated event that showcases the best work from our talented members. This event is open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.
Schedule of Events:
- 10:30 AM – Setup
- 11:30 AM – Lunch Reception
- 12:00 PM – Competition Begins
We look forward to seeing you there for an inspiring and fun-filled day!
The Horseless Carriage Club will be putting on an event in January 11th 2026. The vehicles are early 1900 vintage. The event will start from the San Diego Auto Museum, through Mission Hills and down through Presidio Park, over to Shelter Island, Point Loma and will have about a two-hour display event in Liberty Station before ending.
SCACC is collaborating with the Horseless Carriage Club on this event by encouraging SCACC photographers to participate at the start of the event and along the route to Liberty Station. SCACC photographers are needed from the various camera club to participate in this event. It should be a great opportunity for our club members to photograph vintage vehicles and the drivers in period costumes. Particularly while vehicles are in motion along various location of the route.
I would like a response from those interested so we can cover may of the route locations. An idea SCACC and Horseless Carriage Club are thing about is to have a photo contest with the winner or winners’ photo being hung at the Balboa Auto Museum. This has not been approved as yet. We are hoping to get approval and we are in the process of find judges if this contest takes place.
Please forward your response of participation to me at ralph@scacc.us, The sooner the better. I think it will be an exciting event which SCACC looks forward to being a part of. I will provide more information to the photographers as I get it.